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J. S. HEALEY. FASTENING FOR GLOVES.

No. 494,953. Patented Apr. 4, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

JOSEPH S. HEALEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HELENA E. JENNESS, OF SAME PLACE.

FASTENlNG FOR GLOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,953, dated April 4, 1893. Application filed May 7,1892. Serial No. 432,169. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn S. HnALnv, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Fastenings for Gloves, 8.70., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification,like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a fastening for gloves, &c., which is simple, inexpensive, and easy of manipulation.

My improved fastening consists essentially of two anchors fast on the material, a button or bulb, and a flexible connection between the anchors and between the button or bulb and one of the said anchors, the construction being such that the flexible connection from one to the other anchor may be wrapped about the flexible connection between the button or bulb and the anchor next to it. Preferably the button or bulb will be secured directly to the end of the flexible connection extended through eyes of the two anchors, and also 2 5 preferably the said flexible connection will have a button or bulb at each end to thus enable the wearer of the glove to utilize either end at will of the flexible connection in fastening the glove or other article together.

The anchor is of novel construction and has great strength, and is so applied to the glove that the latter is not strained or torn out. The anchor is composed of a concavo-convex plate having a perforation for a rivet, and

3 5 having an eye preferably eyeletted for the flexible connection, and of a rivet preferably made with a shank hollow from the head of the rivet toward its point, the point of the rivet being closed. The plate is applied to the outer side of the glove material, and the rivet to its inner side, the point of the rivet is passed through the material and through the hole made for it in the plate, and the point of the rivet is then inturned and counter-sunk 5 back to and on the plate, thus firmly uniting the rivet and plate and clamping the glove material in the concavity of the plate and between the plate and head of the rivet.

My fastening is shown herein as applied to the wrist of a glove, so that the latter may be drawn together or shirred by drawing upon either end of a cord or flexible connection, said end being held in position by passing it beneath the button or bulb at the opposite end of the cord.

Figure 1,0f the drawings, represents a glove provided with a fastening embodying this invention; Fig. 2, a similar view showing the manner of clamping the cord when the same has been drawn to shirr the wrist of the glove; Fig. 3, a cross sectional view taken on the dotted line a:x, Fig. 1. Fig. 4, is an enlarged detail of one of the anchor plates; Fig. 5, an enlarged detail of the rivet. Fig. 6, is a section showing the anchor plate and rivet holding the glove, the dotted lines showing the rivet before upsetting it; and Fig. 7, illustrates the manner of using the fastening for articles other than gloves.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a glove, the particular form shown having a whole or unslitted wrist portion A, but my invention is also applicable to a glove wrist of any usual form. The wrist portion is provided with two anchors 0 attached to the matcrial of the glove in suitable manner or as will be described, and having each an eye, as a, through which the cord or flexible connection I) is passed, said cord being provided preferably at each end with a button or bulb 6 preferably made hollow or cup-shaped and of metal, and through which the end of the cord is passed and knotted, see Fig. 2, beyond the eye a. The fasteuin g cord 7) is preferably considerably longer than the distance between the eyes a, a, when the latter are farthest separated from each other as represented in the drawings.

When it is desired to draw or shirr in the wrist of the glove as in Figs. 2 and 3, the person using the devices will engage one end of the cord and will pull on the same in a direction to draw the cord through the two eyes, and for better illustration let it be supposed that the strain is being exerted in the direction of the arrow 10, Fig. 1. The strain so excited will at first cause the button or bulb e at the farther end of the cord 1) to be seated on the eye a, of the plate nearest to it, and the wrist having been drawn sufficiently taut, 10o

the cord near the end which is being pulledupon will be wrapped or wound one or more times about the flexible connection which keeps the said button or bulb seated, in this instance part of the same cord 1), thus looking the cord as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. It will be obvious that the cord may be drawn upon equally well from its opposite end and in the direction of arrow 12 if desired, and wrapped about the cord near its opposite end.

This invention is not limited to the particular shape shown for the button or bulb, as any suitable device, bunch, knot, or lump, to form a bulb or enlargement will serve the purpose of a button in the sense of the use of that term as herein employed. After the cord has been given a complete or a part of aturn beneath said button or bulb, the cord is held frictionall y in position to retain the wrist por tion drawn in, and the greater the force exerted from within to expand or enlarge the wrist of the glove, the greater the pressure with which the clamping button or bulb will be held down upon the fastening cord wound beneath it, said cord being thus held firmly in the position in which it was drawn.

Fig. 4, shows the anchor plate e in perspective, and Fig.5 shows the rivetfco-operating with it. The plate e is at its large end, of concavo-convex shape, and the eye part is preferably formed by the addition of an eyelet g to thus obviate wear on the cord 1). The rivet is composed of a head 13 and a hollow shank, the hollow extending from the head into and Dreferably nearly through the shank.

Fig. 6, shows the anchor on one side of the material A and the rivet shown extended through the glove material from its inner side outwardly as represented by dotted lines, and through the central hole in the plate 0, and thereafter by a suitable tool or device the hollow end of the rivet will be upset fully back upon the plate c. This action results in clam ping the glove material firmly between the head of the rivet and the concaved part of the anchor, the rivet being extended through the central hole 15 to the plate 0. In practice the rivet put through as in dotted lines will be' upset as in Fig. 6 full lines.

Fig. 7, represents my improved fastening as utilized as a fastening for bundles, the cord being passed about the bundle, and one of the ends 5, given a turn about the other end 6 beneath the button or bulb on that end, the end 5 being thus held frictionally between the clamping button or bulb and the end 6 of the cord, the greater the tension exerted on the fastening the less its liability to unfasten.

This invention is not therefore restricted to the application of the fastening device only to gloves, although the same is particularly adapted for a glove fastener, the fastening being adapted for a great variety of uses. Nor

is this invention limited to the particular shape of the anchor plate and its eye a, as instead I can employ a hook or stud.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The herein described glove fastening consisting essentially of two anchor plates each having a concavity at its inner side provided with a hole and with an eye a, acord 0r flexible connection extended loosely through both of said eyes from one to the other of the said anchor plates; and a button or bulb connected to one end of said cord, a portion of one end of the cord being adapted to be wound about a part of the cord between the said button or bulb and the anchor plate next to it, substantially as described.

2. A glove fastener composed of two con- I cavo-convexanchor plates, each provided with a hole and with an eye; metallic rivets having their shanks extended through the holes in the said plates, the ends of the rivets being adapted to be upset in the said holes, and a cord provided with a button or bulb and led through the said eyes to connect the said anchor plates, said cord being wholly outside the anchor plates, substantially as described. 3. The anchor plate having a concavity at its inner side and provided with a hole, and with an eye a, combined with a rivet having a head and a shank madevhollow from the outer side of its head toward the small end of the said shank, substantially as described.

4. The anchor plate having a concavity at its inner side and provided with a hole, and with an eye a, combined with a rivet having a head and a shank made hollow from the outer side of its head toward the small end of .the said shank, and an eyelet set into each anchor plate, substantially as described.

5. The herein described glove fastening, the same consisting of two anchor plates each having a concavity at its under side, and a hole and an eye, and a rivet composed of a I head and a shank made hollow from its head toward the point end thereof, and extended through the glove material and the hole in the plate and clinched back upon the plate; and a fastening cord passed through the eye of each of said plates and provided at each end with a button or bulb whereby the glove may be drawn about the wrist by pulling upon either end of the cord; and may be retained in such condition by winding the cord at one end about itself between the button or bulb and plate at the opposite end of the cord, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH S. HEALEY. l/Vitnesses:

FREDERICK L. EMERY, EMMA J. BENNETT. 

